Is it possible such a result was even partially the fruit of some strict coaching? Of some discipline? Of not being allowed to roam the streets of Cyprus in search of a decent skim cap?

Is a bit of discipline and focus really worth a player revolt against the coach, Hesterine de Reus, five minutes before Football Federation Australia decides if it will put in an expression of interest in hosting the 2019 women's world cup? You know the one. The one when you, the golden generation, will be at your peak?

What were you thinking? Were you thinking at all?

I'm not surprised you beat Brazil. I remember the 1-0 world cup loss in 2011 to the Samba Queens. I recall the missed opportunities in the 1-0 loss last Sunday. I saw how far you had come. I wish I could have seen the win, but closed matches are another story.

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The idea that you are revolting against the coach makes no sense. Not for one moment do I believe that all players want a disciplinarian coach gone: too many of you want to win a world cup, an Olympic gold medal, or both. As currently injured striker Kyah Simon once put it: I want the world cup and I want the golden boot.

Have you forgotten the failure to qualify for the 2012 Olympics was put down to some players' ill-discipline in the break leading up to qualifying by the then captain, Melissa Barbieri?

At the "end of the day you either choose 'comfy' or successful. Plenty deliver comfy. Hesterine de Reus wants success''. These are the words of highly respected former Matilda Julie Dolan. She is worth listening to.

Another former Matilda, Joey Peters, also wrote on Twitter: ''Dangerous times for our game if players' voices overpower coach.'' Listen to her, too.

There are a great many people who think you will become good enough to win a world cup with the right coaching, with the right attitude and with the sacrifices. Hands up those of you who think it's good enough to make the quarters at the 2015 world cup?

Neither do I.

And in all likelihood neither does FFA: that's why it hired de Reus.

It is fair enough for players to take pay grievances to the PFA, especially if the wage system has become opaque. No doubt if your wages were equal to a fulltime wage this so-called revolt might not have occurred. Expecting fulltime professionalism when you're paid part-time wages is tough. But generations past have had it much tougher. Yet each generation of Matildas has made things better for the next. Should your legacy not be bringing professionalism to the game so that one day those who inherit your gold shirts might be paid a fulltime wage? Certainly it has been the legacy of previous generations of Australian cricketers. Now paid fulltime wages, their clinical execution of England in the weekend's world T20 final underscored the value of fulltime financial and behavioural professionalism

Still, poor pay is no reason to turn on a coach whose brief is to get you out of the world's pretty good teams and among its very best so early in her tenure.

You just beat Brazil.

As Peters put it on Twitter: ''Come on guys, do we want coffee or a World Cup?''.

De Reus' continuing tenure is not your choice to make. FFA should back her to do what it hired her to do. Meantime, your choice is whether you want to have a crack at winning a world cup or not.